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Hello all,

I'm looking at spending £500 on a new gaming pc I currently have an i5 2500K that I'm going to sell, what is the best bang for buck cpu amd or Intel?

I need everything accept ram, monitor, mouse and keyboard

Many thanks
 
Hmm, if you have an i5 2500k I'd keep that + the mobo you have (unless you are selling for a specific reason?) What are your full specs? For £500 don't expect much better than the 2500k tbh CPU wise

Possibly a GFX card could be all you need for a good boost, maybe an SSD and a nice heatsink to OC that CPU
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Battlefie (GX-122-GI) £129.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £107.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £23.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
Total : £495.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).




YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £185.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Battlefie (GX-122-GI) £129.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £23.99
Total : £549.49 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Is it 8GB or 4GB?
 
umboma said:
8gb in the form of 2 x 4gb
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Is there a particular reason you wanted to move from your 2500k or just felt like it was needed?
The latest Z97/i5 4690k setup will offer a marginal performance boost, so I recommend getting just a new gfx card and ssd if you don't have either. This will give good boosts (depends on what gfx card you are currently running ofc)

What are your full current specs?
 
Shivy011 said:
Is there a particular reason you wanted to move from your 2500k or just felt like it was needed?
The latest Z97/i5 4690k setup will offer a marginal performance boost, so I recommend getting just a new gfx card and ssd if you don't have either. This will give good boosts (depends on what gfx card you are currently running ofc)

What are your full current specs?
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It's a few years old and just felt / hoped the tech would have improved enough to warrant an upgrade, I do have a ssd only a 64gb that I have just windows on, the 680 is the msi Lightning edition.

I guess I was just looking to move on replace with newer parts then sell the old on
 
umboma said:
It's a few years old and just felt / hoped the tech would have improved enough to warrant an upgrade, I do have a ssd only a 64gb that I have just windows on, the 680 is the msi Lightning edition.
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Hmm

The 2500k is still a good CPU, especially when overclocked. I think a new GFX card and larger SSD would suffice for you
What games do you play, and at what resolution? The 680 is equivalent to a 770 so shouldn't really struggle at 1080p, and that is fairly equal to a 280X so I doubt you'd see a massive difference

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1348?vs=1041

Not a massive difference tbh
Even a £110 used 3770k/2600k would give you gains in multithreaded games (BIOS update probably required to support the 3770k in your motherboard), and the 3770k is very almost as fast as the 4790k! There's simply no point in spending money in upgrading at this point - perhaps when newer CPUs come out, yes, but as of now it's not worth the money you have to spend
 
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umboma said:
It's a few years old and just felt / hoped the tech would have improved enough to warrant an upgrade, I do have a ssd only a 64gb that I have just windows on, the 680 is the msi Lightning edition.

I guess I was just looking to move on replace with newer parts then sell the old on
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Ignore the haters.

Go for the upgrade! More future proof as Z97 is suppose to accept Broadwell too.
 
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